The most abundant element on earth, iron played a key role in early human agricultural, military, and religious development, and in Africa, where smelting and forging can be traced back to the sixth century BC, it still forms an important part of indigenous culture in many Sub-Saharan countries.
Absent minded
It’s only late summer, but I believe we can already declare an award for bravest museum of the year: the National Portrait Gallery, in Washington, DC.
The leafy modernism of Ilonka Karasz
How a prolific, polymathic artist and designer joined an eye for the sleek with a taste for the pastoral
Murder she wrought
The fascinating crime scene dioramas of Frances Glessner Lee.
Whose history is it?
The National Museum of African
American History and Culture reshapes our nation’s story one artifact at a time
The coming storm: American landscape painting and the Civil War
from The Magazine ANTIQUES, November/December 2012 | The role of the Civil War in redefining America is well known. What is less well understood is the profound way in which the conflict changed American Art. Between 1859, when war was imminent, and the war’s end in 1865 writers and artists created their works surrounded by, and sometimes suffocated by, the impact of …
Colonial-era chocolate still tastes good
Would you try American Heritage Chocolate?